The city of Blois in October, Lunel in December, Romans-sur-Isère in January, Morangis in March and Gravelines in mid-April! These 5 geographically different cities are part of the national French three cushion Masters circuit for the 2023/2024 season. The Académie Blésoise de Billard is privileged to debut next weekend from Friday 6 to Sunday 8 October, broadcast on YouTube.
The timing is just right for the club, which has decided to take a big step towards the highest level this year by fielding an exceptional three-cushionteam in Division 2 (Blois Primtec), which has the highest team index of all teams entered. Tolgahan Kiraz and Glenn Hofman are the spearheads with Fabrice Puigvert, Vincent Lelièvre, Badreddine Refassi, Xavier Clausse, Geoffroy Barras and Jacky Justice as contenders to join them.
The 16 seeded players for the main tournament:
Gwendal Maréchal - Hector Echeverry Marin - Jean Reverchon - Frédéric Beghin - Vincent Lelièvre - Mikaël Devogelaere - Marc Boingneres - Jérôme Barbeillon - Frédéric Roelants - Kevin Vasseur - Thierry Roxo - Cédric Melnytschenko - Badreddine Refassi - Jean-Christophe Roux - Maxime Panaia - Vahit Kunt.
The 24 players playing for qualification:
Olivier Bauchet - Grégory Le Deventec - Jean Haby - Thierry De Marchi - Nathan Duriez - Fabrice Puigvert - Steve Dorard - Bernard Villiers - Xavier Clausse - Quentin Marcu - Jérôme Riotto - Thomas Le Coat - Pierre-Jean Lacaze - Jacky Justice - Anthony Chevreau - Marc Vitse - Stany Buyle - Samir Derradji - Jimmy Hilaire - Tangui Duriez - David Gallais - Nathan Legendre - Antoine Mangin - Jean-Luc Miller.